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Too Many Accounts To Remember

October 23, 2008 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

I have a lot of registered accounts at various free & useful websites. We all do it because of the “free” factor. But, what if i have forgotten my login details of a particular website? I usually don’t encounter such issue as i keep common login details(for discussion forums and freebie portals only) at most of the times, at the rest, i am forced to use a different login for registration as it’s already in use. For such cases, i have to manage the login details at one place cause if i try accessing the websites after a long time and i don’t remember the access keys, reluctantly, i have to follow the sucky login recovery procedure.

To avoid that, there is a tiny freeware utility, Text Locker, that helps me Cipher + Password protect the Ciphered text i need to keep in private. The output file can be saved in a txt format which adds portability to the file.

Cipher, also called as “encipherment” is a term used in cryptography to encode the text to conceal its readability and meaning.

Download the application at http://binprojects.com

Note: You can re-cipher the ciphered text if you need to but, if you keep on hitting the Cipher button, the application will take more time to complete the request each time.

How To Grab and Download Embedded Multimedia Quickly?

October 14, 2008 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

The number of of multimedia streaming websites like YouTube, Google Videos, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Tudou, VideoCure, AOL videos is increasing rapidly and has made it easy for all to get a sneak peek of any video or music track we are interested in. Websites like Keepvid.com are super cool for grabbing multimedia content online but, for now, has a limitation up to grabbing links from the famous websites only.

A wide variety of link grabbing tools are also available and stereotypically, most being bundled with spywares and badly coded toolbars. They suck indeed.

Url Snooper is one of the best and cleanest freeware that grabs and lists all HTTP links that your network is conntected to and also the links that are being read by the browser. This tool makes it easy to understand the source of the embedded multimedia content from any public website.

Click here to visit the download page.

Getting started

Visit the concerned website and hit the play button,
Run Url Snooper >> General Options >> Auto Determine Network Adapter Now

Source: http://www.donationcoder.com — Screen 1

You can manually choose the adapter if you know the right one,

Click on Sniff Network, Select Multimedia URLs if so, or choose the option as per your requirement.

This app is a freeware, handy, only 3MB in size, and can be used for a lot of things.

Easily Fixing The Minor Annoyances in Windows XP

October 11, 2008 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Windows XP being the most user friendly OS available, can turn out to be a pain in the butt at times. It is bundled with thousands of features that many are still not aware of, one of them is the ability to easily fix minor annoyances without re-installing the OS.

Lets face facts. Many are switching to Opensource operating systems like Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, e.t.c. But, for now, even though Windows XP irritates at times, it’s the most flexible and user friendly OS available. It’s very boring and a time wasting experience to troublshoot every annoyance manually, only to save the burden of re-installing the OS. Some of them can be fixed manually with ease, but some are hard to. For example, if the tooltip info that you get while you hover the cursor over the taskbar/tray icons, hides behind the taskbar, you can easily fix it with a ToolTip Fixer.

A website www.kellys-korner-xp.com deals with solutions to fix almost all the annoyances that one can encounter while using Windows XP, without re-installing the OS. Save it in your bookmarks, it’s useful.